Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

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Title: Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man 标题：通过让-卢克·皮卡德船长，帕特里克·斯图尔特教会了我们如何衡量一个人

Patrick Stewart died yesterday, and for people of a certain age, a little bit of the future left with him. 帕特里克·斯图尔特昨天去世了，对于特定年龄段的人来说，未来的一部分也随他而去了。

For a certain, less-than-new generation of fans of Stewart’s 1990s television work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, there’s a sorrow that the man behind the larger-than-life Captain Jean-Luc Picard would be lost to a very real, very heartbreaking condition, Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia, according to his family. 对于斯图尔特在20世纪90年代出演《星际迷航：下一代》的那些不再年轻的粉丝们来说，得知这位塑造了传奇人物让-卢克·皮卡德船长的演员因阿尔茨海默病和路易体痴呆症——据其家人所述，这是一种非常真实且令人心碎的疾病——而离世，令人倍感悲伤。

Stewart, of course, was far more than Picard. He anchored the X-Men film franchise and was for decades a dynamo on stage. But there are reasons Captain Picard, commander of the Starship Enterprise, is the character he’s best known for. Over The Next Generation’s seven seasons, four movies, and a revival show —Star Trek: Picard — that ended just three years ago, he portrayed a model of what mature, responsible adulthood could look like for a generation of boys who were bookish, imaginitive, and maybe a little nerdy. 当然，斯图尔特的成就远不止皮卡德这一角色。他曾是《X战警》系列电影的核心，也是几十年来舞台上的活跃人物。但企业号星舰指挥官皮卡德船长之所以成为他最著名的角色是有原因的。在《下一代》的七季剧集、四部电影以及三年前刚刚完结的复兴剧《星际迷航：皮卡德》中，他为一代书卷气、富有想象力且可能有点书呆子气的男孩们，塑造了一个成熟、负责任的成年人典范。

Two of the Globe’s dyed-in-the-wool Star Trek fans share what Captain Picard, and Patrick Stewart, meant to them. 《环球报》的两位忠实《星际迷航》粉丝分享了皮卡德船长和帕特里克·斯图尔特对他们的意义。

John Hilliard: For a younger, and likely wiser generation, stanning a bald middle-aged English actor who played a French guy on a spaceship may be a questionable life choice. But here is the thing: What made Stewart resonate as Picard was how he rooted the character, as in the best of fairy tales, in emotional truth. 约翰·希利亚德：对于更年轻、可能也更明智的一代人来说，追捧一位在太空飞船上扮演法国人的秃头中年英国演员，可能是一个值得商榷的人生选择。但关键在于：斯图尔特之所以能引起共鸣，是因为他像最好的童话故事一样，将皮卡德这个角色扎根于情感的真实之中。

Jason Laughlin: I agree. Picard seemed as real as the complex characters that would start to populate prestige TV a decade later. But unlike anti-heroes such as Tony Soprano and Walter White, Stewart gave us a nuanced character we actually admired. He loved his job. He had passions like archaeology, Shakespeare, and music. He held to his ideals even when it meant terrible personal sacrifice. 杰森·劳克林：我同意。皮卡德看起来和十年后开始出现在精品电视剧中的那些复杂角色一样真实。但与托尼·索普拉诺和沃尔特·怀特等反英雄不同，斯图尔特赋予了我们一个真正令人钦佩的细腻角色。他热爱自己的工作。他有考古学、莎士比亚和音乐等爱好。即使这意味着巨大的个人牺牲，他也坚持自己的理想。

In the mess of American politics over the past 20 years, there have been so many times I’ve longed for a Picard-style speech that makes right and wrong crystal clear. 在过去20年混乱的美国政治中，我曾无数次渴望听到一段皮卡德式的演讲，将是非曲直讲得清清楚楚。

“You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy,” Picard said when a Joe McCarthy-esque admiral began witch hunting on the Enterprise. “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” “你知道，有些话我从学生时代就知道了，”当一位乔·麦卡锡式的海军上将在企业号上开始猎巫行动时，皮卡德这样说道。“当第一环扣上，锁链便已铸成。第一次言论被审查，第一个思想被禁止，第一项自由被剥夺，都将我们所有人不可逆转地锁住。”

His character’s moral clarity, and Stewart’s conviction in Delivering it, put an end to the admiral’s reign of terror. If only real world oppression could be dispelled so easily. 他角色的道德清晰度，以及斯图尔特在传达这些话语时的坚定信念，终结了那位海军上将的恐怖统治。如果现实世界中的压迫也能如此轻易地消除该多好。

JH: Full disclosure: Star Trek is a show, which Youtube will prove, that leaned hard on latex foreheads and sometimes-flimsy production to tell stories of intergalactic scallywags known as Klingons and Borg, Romulans and Cardassians. Like free office coffee, it’s an acquired taste. 希利亚德：坦白说：《星际迷航》是一部正如YouTube所证明的那样，严重依赖乳胶额头和有时显得粗糙的制作，来讲述克林贡人、博格人、罗慕伦人和卡达西人等星际恶棍故事的剧集。就像办公室里的免费咖啡一样，这是一种需要培养才能适应的口味。

JL: One of my friends has a theory that if you didn’t get into Star Trek before you’re 18 years old, you’re never really going to get it. 劳克林：我的一位朋友有一个理论：如果你在18岁之前没有迷上《星际迷航》，那你永远都不会真正理解它。

To me, what’s so accessible, and radical, about Stewart, though, was his ability to convincingly portray vulnerability while still maintaining Picard as a credible leader. 对我来说，斯图尔特最平易近人且激进的地方在于，他能够在令人信服地表现脆弱的同时，依然保持皮卡德作为一名可靠领导者的形象。

One episode saw Picard return to his home village in France to heal from a traumatic assault. 在其中一集中，皮卡德回到了法国的家乡，试图从一次创伤性袭击中恢复过来。

At the conclusion, Stewart surrenders the control that was his character’s hallmark and falls into the mud, sobbing, over his failure to fight off his assailants. It’s a raw, real, depiction of a broken man. Stewart shifts from total collapse into slow recovery by reconciling with his brother. Grief is replaced by warmth, and Stewart sells it perfectly. 在结尾处，斯图尔特放弃了作为角色标志的控制力，跌入泥潭，为自己没能击退袭击者而啜泣。这是对一个破碎之人的真实、原始的刻画。斯图尔特通过与兄弟和解，从彻底崩溃转向缓慢的恢复。悲伤被温暖所取代，斯图尔特的演绎堪称完美。

JH: Totally. He knew how to make that show work for him. 希利亚德：完全同意。他知道如何让这部剧为他所用。

That’s despite an episode where he faces off against a giant, talking tar pit. Or the one where he sells eating a sandwich in the sci-fi version of the family station wagon. Or when he chugs Ecto Cooler (remember Ecto Cooler?) with a depressed Scotty, from the original Star Trek, and shares stories about first jobs and first girlfriends. He even shows up in tights, as discount Errol Flynn Robin Hood. 尽管有一集他要面对一个巨大的、会说话的焦油坑。或者那一集，他在科幻版的家庭旅行车里吃三明治。又或者当他和来自初代《星际迷航》中抑郁的斯科蒂一起狂饮Ecto Cooler（还记得Ecto Cooler吗？），并分享关于第一份工作和初恋女友的故事时。他甚至还穿着紧身裤，扮演了一个打折版的埃罗尔·弗林式罗宾汉。

As a kid raised on television before there was an Internet, Stewart plugged into a world where figures like Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross presented a model for manhood that was gentle, patient, and a teacher. Stewart played Picard in a similar vein, basically everyone’s Space Dad. 作为一个在互联网出现之前看着电视长大的人，斯图尔特进入了一个世界，在那里，罗杰斯先生和鲍勃·罗斯这样的人物展现了一种温柔、耐心且富有教导意义的男性典范。斯图尔特以类似的方式扮演了皮卡德，他基本上就是每个人的“太空老爸”。

JL: This is embarrassing, but the first TV episode that moved me to tears was from The Next Generation. 劳克林：这很尴尬，但我看过的第一部让我热泪盈眶的电视剧集正是来自《下一代》。

“The Inner Light” has Picard experience an entire lifetime as a different person on an alien planet. Again, the actor found his character’s humanity through slow revelation that perhaps a life with a wife and children is just as big an adventure as exploring space. 在《内心之光》这一集中，皮卡德在异星球上以另一个人的身份经历了一整个人生。这位演员再次通过缓慢的揭示，展现了他角色的仁慈：也许拥有妻子和孩子的生活，与探索太空一样是一场伟大的冒险。

“Seize the time,” Picard says to his daughter in this other life. “Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.” “抓住时间，”皮卡德在这一人生中对他的女儿说，“活在当下！让当下永远成为最宝贵的时刻。当下永远不会再来。”

At the end of the episode, it’s revealed the decades he spent in that other life were an illusion he experienced in less than an hour. The only tangible thing he has from that world is a flute he learned to play in that other life. In the final moments, Picard plays it again, and without saying a word Stewart plays absolute heartbreak. 在剧集结尾，真相揭晓：他在那段人生中度过的几十年，只是他在不到一小时内经历的幻觉。他从那个世界带回来的唯一实物，是他学会吹奏的一支长笛。在最后时刻，皮卡德再次吹响了它，斯图尔特没有说一个字，却演绎出了极致的心碎。

Seeing a strong, confident leader who was able to express regrets, sadness, and heartache left a lasting impression. 看到一位强大、自信的领导者能够表达遗憾、悲伤和心痛，给我留下了深刻的印象。

JH: Imagine you’re a kid watching TV, and you feel kind of alone, unsure of yourself. And then there’s Stewart, in full reassuring teaching mode. It’s the episode where Wil Wheaton’s character is struggling with tremendous guilt as he tries to hide his complicity in the death of a friend. Stewart, as Picard, is on to him. 希利亚德：想象一下，你是一个看电视的孩子，感到有些孤独，对自己不确定。然后斯图尔特出现了，他完全处于一种令人安心的教导模式。在这一集中，威尔·惠顿饰演的角色因为试图掩盖自己参与导致朋友死亡的事件而陷入巨大的内疚中。斯图尔特饰演的皮卡德看穿了他。

Wheaton’s character, Wesley Crusher, is as close to a son as Picard will likely ever have, and Stewart leans into Picard’s grief, grief from knowing that doing the right thing will likely destroy the younger man’s future. 惠顿饰演的角色卫斯理·克拉夏，可能是皮卡德最接近儿子的存在。斯图尔特深入刻画了皮卡德的悲伤，这种悲伤源于他知道做正确的事很可能会摧毁这个年轻人的未来。

“A lie of omission is still a lie,” Picard tells Wheaton. Stewart’s voice cracks as Picard remembers meeting Wheaton’s character for the first time. He sat in Picard’s chair. He knew every button on the ship, every function. He was annoyed, Picard gr “隐瞒真相也是一种谎言，”皮卡德对惠顿说。当皮卡德回忆起第一次见到惠顿饰演的角色时，斯图尔特的声音哽咽了。他坐在皮卡德的椅子上。他知道飞船上的每一个按钮、每一个功能。他感到很恼火，皮卡德……